Geology and engineering for dams and reservoirs
Subtitle: Papers and discussions presented at the New York meeting, February, 1929.
Series: American institute of mining and metallurgical engineers. Technical publication; no. 215.; Class I, Mining geology,; no. 26
Publisher: American institute of mining and metallurgical engineers, inc.
Published: 1929
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Dams.; Reservoirs.
Notes: Bibliographical foot-notes.
Table of contents: title: Responsibilities of the geologist in engineering projects, by Charles P. Berkey.; title: Problems involved in the geologic examination of sites for dams, by Kirk Bryan.; title: Relation of ground-water conditions to leakage of reservoirs, by Oscar Edward Meinzer.; title: Effect of minor geologic details on the safety of dams, by Charles Terzaghi.; title: More and better geologic data for use in hydraulic projects, by Gerald H. Matthes.; title: Geologic examination of dam sites in the Tennessee and Cumberland River basins, by L. W. Fisher and R. D. Ohrenschall.; title: The geology of dam sites, by Chester K. Wentworth.; title: The geology of dams and reservoirs, by L. C. Glenn.; title: Success and failure of reservoirs in basalt, by Harold T. Stearns.